The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat--No. 2, 6Sss@6S5Sc.
Corn-No. 8, 42c. Osts-No. 2, 27slc. Rye
No. /. 471ac. Barley, 611<c.
/ Near Monroe, Green County, the other
day, William KroelJ was shockingly man.
gied and instantly killed by the explosion
of blast
Alpheus Austin's family at GAINESVILLE
had narrow escape from death by burn
ing late the other night. A tramp set fire
to the residence, and the flames had such
start when discovered that the inmates
OF the house had to get out by the roof.
A second crop of cranberries is being
harvested IN Monroe County.
An Agricultural, horticultural and
Dairymen's Association has been or
ganized by the farmers in the vicinity of
La Crosse.
The Standard Paper Company of Mil.
waukee issued circular to its patrons
few days ago notifying them that it had
mado satisfactory settlement with its
creditors, and was again in position to do
business as before its financial troubles
Severson & Bronson's planning mill and
feed-store at Stoughton were burned the
other morning. Loss, $1,000; insurance,
s., OO0
In Milwaukee few mornings ago Ben.
Iamin DAILY, well-known citizen, was
stabbed by recently released convict. His
wound Was supposed to be fatal
A girl giving the name of Mary Martin,
with babe in her arms went to the police
station in Milwaukee recently and told
| many conflicting stories. She claimed to
have homo in Iowa City, an said she
hal been robbed of all her money in Chi
cago. She was sent to the Home of the
Friendless. While there she dropped the
child, ran away and escaped arrest. The
police think she was hired at Chicago to
get rid of the child in some way.
The La Belle wagon works at Fond du
Lac were sold few days ago to syndi-
| cate of Fond da Lac. Chicago and Mime
apolis capitalists for $3.50, 900 cash. B.
Moore, the principal owner of the works,
W as one OF the original founders Of Fond
du Lac
A sensation was caused a year ago by
the arrest of ex-County Judge Williams,
OF Wood County on charge of conspiring
| to defraud the Federal Government by
making forged certificates in an endeavor
| to procure pension for his client wom-
an by the name of Ostrander. A few days
| ago the Federal Court at Madison quashed
| the Indictment.
| The haz9l-nut crop in the vicinity of Eau
Claire is larger than known for many
| years.
A marsh of seventy five acres near Little
! Silver lake, Washington County, is being
cleared of dense underground and
| ditched for a cranberry marsh. Ten acres
| have been reclaimed thus far, AMI are al.
ready bearing thrifty vines.
The acreage of winter wheat in Buffalo
County will be larger this fall than it was
last.
Atarecentmeetingo of the Appleton Coun-
Gil resolution was introduced and passed
that every man employed by the city who
did not pay his de BITS incurred while in the
service of the city was to be summarily
discharged.
Iwenty-four inches was the length of a
muskmelon recently on exhibition in Eau
Claire
The following telegram was received the
other day from Washington by the land
Office in Eau Claire: GAS the right of the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
to indemnity lands will soon be adjusted
by direction of the Acting Secre tary of
the Interior you viii suspend the PES tora-
ton of said lands till further orders. This
will apply both to the main line and the
Bayfield, branch. :"
Henry S. Simons, sixty years of age, of
Saint Croix Falls, Polk County, was killed
few days ago by load of furniture
falling on him from his wagon. The old
man was moving and died alone.
Beds of yellow ochre were recently dis
covered near Dodgeville.
Two zinc and lead mines were recently
opened in the town of Shullsburg, La
fayette County, that would yield, accord.
ing to reliable estimates, four hundred
tons of ore per month, and which were
said to be iIexhaustible.
Treasurer William Kickbush, OF Mara
thon County, was arrested at Merrill a
few days ago and fined five dollars and
cost for running horses on the street
Mgr. Donahue, aged eighty years, chap
lain of st. Mary's Hospital at Milwaukee
celebrated the fiftleth anniversary of his
priesthood a few days ago. The religious
exercises were held in st. Johns Cattle.
dral, where for thirty years he was pastor
A population of L. S25 is claimed by Fond
du Lac.
son recently on the charge of forging small
checks on the First National Bank of that
city.
Miss Mamie e. Wall died at st. Clara
Academy, Sinsinawa Mound, the other
night In religion she was known as Sis
ter Amy. She was born in Chicago.
Gerhard Verfurth. of Milwaukee, who
for six or seven years held the position of
superintendent of the county poor-farm,
dropped dead of paralysis of the heart
while at dinner recently. He was fifty-one
years old
One of the tug Wisconsin's scows became
waterlogged near Kewaunee a few days
ago and lost five thousand cedar ties, con-
signed to W. D. Ayers, Chicago.
The widow of Hon. Alexander Mitchell
has sold her in terest in the family home
at Milwaukee . her son, John l.. MITCHELL
for 100000
The eleven-year-old son of AL Peck,
conductor on the Omaha road was drowned
in the Dells pond a short distance above
Eau Claire, the other afternoon.
Alexander McSwain, charged with petty
larency, died in Jail at Sturgeon Bay re-
Gently from the excessive use of liquor.
He was a lumberman and we'll educated
The Griswold mill at Fish Creek, Door
County, was burned the other night with
lumber and dock. The origin of the fire
was unknown. Loss, $4,000
Over five hundred men are now employed
at the rafting works ON the Lower Chip
pewa turning out logs at the rate of
million feet per day for mills at Burling-
ton, Clinton and Lyons, Ia, and inferno.
date points along the Miss sippi The
output to November is expected to reach
two hundred and twenty-five million feet
The Central Hotel, an ancient LANDMARK
at River Falls, Pierce County, owned by
Frank RUSSELL was destroyed by fire the
other day. The loss on the luilding was
about S. 900; insurance, $500 William
Wells, the occupant, lost furniture to the
amount of $500; no Insurance.. Miss Agnes
Wells, his daughter. lost nearly all her
clothing and $50 in money The fire was
of incendiary origin